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416728

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre: Per Capita Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average daily cost is of detaining an individual at Dungavel detention centre.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart McDonald
	uin	8826
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2015 answer text <p>It is not possible to provide details of the cost of a specific Immigration Removal Centre as the information is commercially sensitive, and if it were released, could compromise the Government’s ability to continue to drive down costs on behalf of the taxpayer. Nationally, the average cost per day to hold an individual in immigration detention was £91.61 in the year ending June 2015.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 8640 question first answered 18/09/2015 15:59:26 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

416730

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre: Detainees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people of each nationality detained at Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre have been detained at that centre for more than (a) three, (b) six and (c) 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart McDonald
	uin	8753
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2015 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of people detained at Dungavel House immigration removal centre by nationality, by length of detention, as at 30 June 2015.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4">People in detention as at 30 June 2015, at Dungavel IRC, by length of detention, by nationality</td></tr><tr><td>Country of nationality</td><td>3 months to less than 6 months</td><td>6 months to less than 12 months</td><td>12 months and over</td></tr><tr><td>Afghanistan</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Algeria</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Bangladesh</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>China</td><td>2</td><td>1</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Estonia</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Hong Kong</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>India</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Kenya</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Kuwait</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Lebanon</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Nigeria</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Pakistan</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Poland</td><td>2</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Uganda</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Vietnam</td><td>4</td><td>1</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Total</td><td>20</td><td>8</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">IRC = Immigration Removal Centre</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on the number of people detained in the United Kingdom for immigration purposes, within the Immigration Statistics release. Data relating to people in detention are available in tables dt_11_q to dt_13_q in Immigration Statistics: April – June 2015 on the GOV.UK website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 10/09/2015 14:08:31 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

416729

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre: Detainees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people of each nationality are detained at Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre,
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart McDonald
	uin	8752
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2015 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of people detained at Dungavel House immigration removal centre by nationality, as at 30 June 2015, the latest date for which figures are available.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2">People in detention by country of nationality as at 30 June 2015</td></tr><tr><td>Country of nationality</td><td>Dungavel IRC</td></tr><tr><td>Afghanistan</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td>Albania</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>Algeria</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>Bangladesh</td><td>30</td></tr><tr><td>Belgium</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>China</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td>Egypt</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Eritrea</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Estonia</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Former Yugoslavia</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Gambia, The</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Ghana</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>Hong Kong</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>India</td><td>37</td></tr><tr><td>Iran</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>Iraq</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>Israel</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Kenya</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Kuwait</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Latvia</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>Lebanon</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Lithuania</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>Nepal</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Nigeria</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td>Pakistan</td><td>25</td></tr><tr><td>Poland</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>Portugal</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Romania</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Somalia</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>South Africa</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Sudan</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Syria</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Thailand</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Turkey</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>Uganda</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Ukraine</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Vietnam</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td>Total</td><td>190</td></tr><tr><td>z = Not applicable.</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>IRC = Immigration Removal Centre</td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on the number of people detained in the United Kingdom for immigration purposes, within the Immigration Statistics release. Data relating to people in detention are available in tables dt_11_q to dt_13_q in Immigration Statistics: April – June 2015 on the GOV.UK website:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 10/09/2015 14:10:36 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

416731

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people are employed at Dungavel detention centre; and what the (a) roles and (b) grades are of those staff.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart McDonald
	uin	8748
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2015 answer text <p>Staff at Dungavel immigration removal centre are employed by both GEO and the Home Office. Details of numbers of staff cannot be provided for security reasons.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 10/09/2015 14:06:23 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

416732

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre: Per Capita Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average daily cost is of detaining a person at Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart McDonald
	uin	8640
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2015 answer text <p>It is not possible to provide details of the cost of a specific Immigration Removal Centre as the information is commercially sensitive, and if it were released, could compromise the Government’s ability to continue to drive down costs on behalf of the taxpayer. Nationally, the average cost per day to hold an individual in immigration detention was £91.61 in the year ending June 2015.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 8826 question first answered 18/09/2015 15:59:26 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

391512

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the explanatory note on the Asylum Support (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2015, on what basis it was concluded that those Regulations would have no impact on the voluntary sector.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart McDonald
	uin	7908
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>Asylum seekers who are destitute are provided with accommodation and a cash allowance to cover their essential living needs. The level of the allowance is kept under regular review. The most recent review showed that the asylum support payments provided to larger household groups comfortably exceeded what is necessary to meet essential living needs. Despite the planned reduction in the rate, the payments are still sufficient to meet those needs. There should therefore be no impact on the voluntary sector.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 07/09/2015 15:43:23 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

535278

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will collect regularly statistics on the (a) number of and (b) reasons for exceptional family reunion cases relating to children where indefinite leave to remain is granted at her discretion outside of the rules.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
	uin	42404
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the specific information in the format requested. The questions cover a number of different casework operations and the information is not recorded centrally in a way which can be reported on directly.</p><p>To obtain the information would involve examining individual case records and would incur disproportionate cost. We do not currently plan to change the data that is centrally recorded and published on this category of applications.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 42276 42277 question first answered 14/07/2016 15:22:11 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

535281

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which exceptional circumstances applied to each grant of family reunion made outside the rules during the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
	uin	42277
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the specific information in the format requested. The questions cover a number of different casework operations and the information is not recorded centrally in a way which can be reported on directly.</p><p>To obtain the information would involve examining individual case records and would incur disproportionate cost. We do not currently plan to change the data that is centrally recorded and published on this category of applications.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 42276 42404 question first answered 14/07/2016 15:22:11 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

535280

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will collect data on the reasons given for refusal of family reunion applications involving children and young people aged over 18 years of age.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
	uin	42276
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the specific information in the format requested. The questions cover a number of different casework operations and the information is not recorded centrally in a way which can be reported on directly.</p><p>To obtain the information would involve examining individual case records and would incur disproportionate cost. We do not currently plan to change the data that is centrally recorded and published on this category of applications.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 42277 42404 question first answered 14/07/2016 15:22:11 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

524279

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Religion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications for the Government's policy on asylum of the report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief, entitled Asylum report: inadequate assessment of religion-based claims, published in June 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
	uin	40100
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>We are currently carefully considering the report and its recommendations. The report acknowledges the progress made by the Home Office with regards to guidance and training provided to its staff but highlighted the Group’s view that there were some discrepancies between the Home Office policy and practice.</p><p>The Home Office carefully considers all asylum claims on their individual merits and grants protection for those who genuinely need it, in accordance with our international obligations under the Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). In every asylum case the particular circumstances of the individual are considered in light of published country information, which includes issues relating specifically to religious freedoms.</p><p>Published guidance on the interviewing and consideration of religious claims is regularly reviewed and takes into consideration the views of religious groups and other stakeholders.</p><p>All asylum decision makers are currently receiving credibility training. This course trains decision makers on how to assess the evidential value of their interview questions (including when assessing religious based claims and religious conversion), the various reasons why someone may not come across as credible in an asylum interview and discusses issues such as speculation and implausibility. The 5-week Foundation Training Programme (FTP) for new decision makers trains staff on all aspects of the asylum decision making process, including religious based claims and religious conversion has been endorsed by the UNHCR.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 15/06/2016 11:09:55 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald